Wendover Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force base in Utah now known as Wendover Airport. During World War II, it was a training base for B-17 and B-24 bomber crews. It was the training site of the 509th Composite Group, the B-29 unit that carried out the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Tower and operations building
Aerial photo of Wendover AAF looking north, 1943
Abandoned World War II housing units at Wendover Army Air Field
JB-2 being inspected by USAAF personnel at Wendover AAF, 1944
Wendover Airport is a county-owned, public-use airport located one nautical mile (2 km) southeast of the central business district of Wendover, a city on the western edge of Tooele County, Utah, United States, near the border with Nevada.
USGS 2006 orthophoto